Biological question answering with syntactic and semantic feature matching and an improved mean reciprocal ranking measurement

2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE IRI-2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 184-189

  Lin, Ryan T K ^a   Chiu, Justin Liang Te ^a,c   Dai, Hong Jei ^a,d   Day, Min Yuh ^a   Tsai, Richard Tzong Han ^b   Hsu, Wen Lian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; INFORMATION USE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

BIO-MOLECULAR; INFORMATION RE-USE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANK; PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; QA SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 52349088704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2008.4583027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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